Rex Huppke

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Rex Huppke writes a twice-weekly humor(ish) column along with a workplace column called “I Just Work Here” that runs every Monday in the business section. He is considered (by himself) to be America’s most-beloved workplace advice columnist, though there is no empirical evidence to back that up. Prior to becoming a columnist, Huppke spent a decade reporting on an array of social justice issues for the Tribune, from poverty and gang violence to the gay civil rights movement. He previously worked for The Associated Press and was a witness to the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. In his free time, Huppke enjoys making fun of Donald Trump and writing jokes about people who eat quinoa.

If there's one thing I enjoy about the wildly popular television series "The Walking Dead," it's that it promises an apocalyptic version of America, replete with brain-starved zombies and gangs of renegade humans, and then it really delivers.

I haven’t been feeling my usual manly self lately. I keep messing things up in a clumsily absurd fashion and feel an overwhelming desire to spend time with a large and inordinately expressive reindeer.